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Guitar Legends

by Chuck Berry / Bo Diddley

Product Description:

Personnel includes: Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley (vocals, guitar).

This collection features five cuts each from two of the men who changed the face of popular music in the '50s by helping to invent rock & roll. Berry was arguably the first great rock & roll singer-songwriter, combining chugging R&B rhythms with country and blues licks, over which he laid some sophisticated, literate verbiage. Diddley, whose mother knew him as Elias McDaniel, created the shave-and-a-haircut-two-bits beat that emphasized rock & roll's African roots. This compilation, reaching as it does into the Chess Records catalogues of both Berry and Diddley, offers some of their best material. Not necessarily a greatest hits package, GUITAR LEGENDS features the less-overexposed end of both men's music, as on cuts like Diddley's "You Can't Judge a Book By It's Cover" and Berry's infamous, suggestive "My Ding-A-Ling."